Wisconsin's Conservative Stars

The Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan homecoming rally yesterday in Waukesha was an incredible moment in our state's history.

Wisconsin's Paul Ryan will be on the Republican ticket for vice president of the United States.

That's surreal. There's a dreamlike quality to the whole thing.

Wisconsin's Paul Ryan will be on the Republican ticket for vice president of the United States.

Incredible.

I wanted Romney to choose Ryan. I think he's a tremendous asset to the ticket.

Of course, Democrats are going to try to paint Ryan as extreme; but I think they'll fail, at least among levelheaded people. Sure, the Dems already have their talking points. The liberal media Obama mouthpieces are yapping about Ryan's alleged negatives.

He's waging war on women. He wants to rip Medicare from seniors and callously throw them over the cliff. He wants to destroy the middle class and do all he can to give tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires. Oh, my God!!!

Frankly, they sound like fools.

Will the slimy David Letterman go after Ryan's adorable kids?

Will Katie Couric ask Ryan to name newspapers he reads?

How low will they go? How low will Obama go?

(As Mitt Romney said at the rally, "Mr. President, take your campaign out of the gutter.")

Nothing would surprise me. The Leftists have gone off the deep end.

We in Wisconsin know the real Paul Ryan, just as we know the real Scott Walker.

A smear campaign didn't work for the Democrats on the state level in the failed recall, the historic recall, and it won't work on the national level.

I think the 2010 election was a turning point in Wisconsin. The recall madness only served to solidify the resolve of Wisconsinites to achieve the real reform and find the real solutions and demand the real change we voted for in 2010.

So much has changed since 2008.

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Brushing aside tears and responding to raucous cheers, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan returned to Wisconsin on Sunday for an emotional homecoming in front of thousands of people on the grounds of the Waukesha County Expo Center.

"It's good to be home," Ryan said in a speech that wove personal history and national aspiration.

A day after he was named Mitt Romney's running mate and vaulted on to the Republican Party's biggest political stage, Ryan spoke of his family's deep roots in Wisconsin and his ties to Janesville, where "we live on the block I grew up on."

"My veins run with cheese, bratwurst, a little Spotted Cow, Leinie's and some Miller," he said. "I was raised on the Packers, Badgers, Bucks and Brewers.

"I like to hunt here, I like to fish here, I like to snowmobile here. I even think ice fishing is interesting. I'm a Wisconsinite through and through."

Despite dark skies that threatened rain, the weather remained pleasant for the early evening appearances by Ryan and the GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, Romney. The sun peeked through clouds to light the stage during most of the 26 minutes of speeches by the newly minted Republican ticket.

In many ways, this was a Ryan family affair, the candidate saying hello to his mother, Betty, from the stage, while also speaking warmly about his wife, Janna, and children, Liza, Charles and Sam. He also joked that half the crowd was made up of the extended Ryan family.

Ryan saluted three other Wisconsin Republicans who have achieved national prominence: Gov. Scott Walker, Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

"We're just guys from Tosa, Kenosha, Oshkosh and Janesville," Ryan said "What we learned in this state, just a little while ago, is that we want to elect men and women who run for office and tell us who they really are, what they really believe, what they're really going to do, and when they get elected, they do that.

"That's what we do here in Wisconsin."

Ryan is so right.

These courageous guys from Wisconsin, from "Tosa, Kenosha, Oshkosh and Janesville," are shaping the future of our nation.

Seeing Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Reince Priebus, and Ron Johnson on the stage together, with Ryan as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, in front of a crowd of thousands and thousands of energized people, was a powerful visual.

Wisconsinites are among our nation's greatest conservative leaders.

They're leading the charge to save America, to give the precious inheritance of a strong, vibrant country to our children, a land of freedom and opportunity.

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I am so proud to be a Wisconsinite.

I am so proud to be an American.